His lust is to command, not to convince: conviction requires an act of independence and rests on the absolute of an objective reality.

My conviction rested on my own way of interpreting the forces, which was different from theirs.

The conviction rested on the theory, approved by the trial judge, that Federal racketeering laws forbade activities that defrauded citizens of their right to honest government.

His conviction rested on two confessions Gilmour alleges were respectively beaten out of him and concocted by police officers.

The pamphlet identifies three major principles on which her convictions rested.

Their convictions rested on a single piece of controversial forensic testimony, the insistence by Government laboratory experts that the Maguires' hands bore traces of nitroglycerine.

Egal's conviction rested on our witnesses' testimony.

Their convictions rested largely on her testimony.

Her conviction rested in large part upon testimony from Smith, who concluded the boy had been strangled or smothered.

Dreyfus was, in fact, innocent: the conviction rested on false documents, and when high-ranking officers realized this they attempted to cover up the mistakes.